{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/801",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Article 1 (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (e) for “Article 36 of Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on medicinal products for paediatric use”, substitute “ regulation 58A(3) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 ”.\n(3) After paragraph (e) insert—\n“(f) ‘comptroller’ means the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks;\n(g) ‘court’ means—\n(i) as respects England and Wales, the High Court;\n(ii) as respects Scotland, the Court of Session;\n(iii) as respects Northern Ireland, the High Court in Northern Ireland;\n(h) “EEA authorisation” means an authorisation to place a medicinal product on the market which has effect in an EEA state in accordance with Directive 2001/83/EC or Directive 2001/82/EC;\n(i) ‘patent’ means a patent which has effect in the United Kingdom;\n(j) ‘UK authorisation’ means, in relation to a product, an authorisation to place that product on the market in the United Kingdom as a medicinal product granted or having effect as if granted in accordance with—\n(i) Part 5 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012; or\n(ii) regulation 4(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 .”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(3) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 34(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(3) inserted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Supplementary Protection Certificates (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1471), regs. 1(2), 3(3) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(3) inserted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 34(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/1916. Regulation 58A is inserted by S.I. 2019/775, reg. 64."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/2033."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 52 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/801/regulation/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:41:57.386476+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}